Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven Bethard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If len() were a method of string objects, you could try using the >> unbound method and writing this as:: >> >> >>> sorted(['aaa', 'bb', 'c'], key=str.len) >> ['c', 'bb', 'aaa'] >> >> But then your code would break on lists that weren't strings. > > sorted(['aaa', 'bb', 'c'], key=lambda x: x.len())
Of course, but all you're doing with the lambda is creating the len() function. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
